Acting It Out
Enlighten Me
Declare The Answer
CONVENTIONal Wisdom
It's Critical
100

It was the first direct tax applied to the colonies by Parliament...though it was eventually repealed.

STAMP ACT

100

Again, there is no liberty, if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control; for the judge would be then the legislator.

Montesquieu 

100

Jefferson argued that the only reason government existed at all was to "Secure" these...

Unalienable Rights 

100

If not for this event, we might never have found ourselves in Philadelphia in 1787 to begin with...

Shays' Rebellion

100

The first government system of the United States, created back in 1775

Articles of Confederation

200

Meant to strictly control British Colonial trade, it outlawed the transportation of English goods on non-English ships, among other things.

Navigation Acts

200

“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”

John Locke

200
Jefferson accused HIM of many specific wrongdoings in the Declaration of Independence 

King George III

200

The balance of power between _______ & _________ took center stage at the Convention.

State & Federal

200

Ironically it was deliberately designed this way, but our first government failed because it could not collect THESE from the States.

Taxes 

300

Our 3rd Amendment is based upon it today...it allowed British soldiers to board themselves in the homes of colonists.

Quartering Act

300

The Enlightenment had a large impact on this important early-American document

Declaration of Independence 

300

Jefferson declared that the American people hold THESE truths to be self-evident 

All Men are Created Equal
They have unalienable rights
Governments exist only to protect rights 

300

This plan called for a 3 branch system, Bicameral Congress, and representation to be done entirely by State Populations

Virginia Plan

300

They emerged as an early political group that advocated for creating a more federally-powerful system of government.

Federalists

400

Closed the port of Boston, disbanded the Massachusetts colonial government, banned all colonial courts of law.

Intolerable/Coercive Acts

400

The Enlightenment often seen as a rejection of ____________ thought in favor of Rational thought.

Religious 

400

Jefferson indicated his vision for 13 separate American nations (states) by leaving THIS WORD uncapitalized...

united 

400

Southerners got this compromise pushed through, evidence of it can be seen in looking at 4 of our first 5 presidents.

3/5 Compromise 

400

He led a Rebellion of angry, Revolutionary-War veteran farmers in response to the state of Massachusetts trying to seize his farm.

Daniel Shays

500

Named after the man who devised them, these laws taxed paper, glass, paint, and Tea.

Many of them were eventually repealed, except the tax on Tea

Townshend Acts 

500

This Enlightenment philosopher’s advocacy for freedom of speech and religion was central to his works, famously stating, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Voltaire 

500

Jefferson reminds THEM that they, too have ignored the American Colonists...and that they are now at war with us.

The British Citizens 

500
THIS SYSTEM is how we elect our presidents, today you need ______ to win!

Electoral College, 270

500

Congress banned slavery HERE in 1787

Northwest Territories